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A drug raid last Thursday netted an arrest for the Campbell County Sheriff’s Department.

According to Det. Sgt. John Long, CCSD personnel along with members from the Eighth Judicial Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at 435 Waddell Lane in Caryville during the early afternoon hours on Dec. 16.

Officers were forced to use a ram to make entry to the residence after the homeowner refused to come to the door.

Some would say 20-years-old is still a child, but it’s different in the military.

A 20-year-old is expected to be as brave and strong as a person twice his age. At least that’s how it was for LaFollette native Dwight Goodman.

December 1965 carries lasting memories for Goodman. He turned 20-years-old on the sixth, and left for Germany the next day. He ran a mission down the Adriatic against the former Yugoslavia air defenses, said Goodman.

His team continued flying into Turkey where they began a series of intelligence gathering missions.

With several payments being made by the Caryville Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Monday night, a suggestion was made to lower the cost of utility bills.

The athletic lights located in the Asbury Park ball field, have been paid in increments for over 10 years, according to Alderman Wade Lawson. The lights have been paid for but the town continues to make payments toward maintenance.

On Dec. 1 Det. Lt. Brandon Elkins received information from a victim that the fugitive had allegedly stolen items from his residence valued at approximately $1,800.

Records indicate the victim contacted Elkins after locating two of his stolen firearms in the possession of a man who had purchased the guns from Charles Vincent Chapman, 47, of 308 Seventh Street, Lake City, for $150.

Five children and 26 years later, Darlene Brown of LaFollette is furthering her education. The decision to go back to school was difficult, she said. But Project Working Mom made it possible.

The Project Working Mom scholarship program, developed by eLearners.com, held an essay contest from the web resource of Education Dynamics. Working moms or dads who wanted to earn an online degree could apply.

Bill Spangler was attending a revival in his younger years where a guest evangelist began preaching about the evils of tobacco. It prompted one of the parishioners to remind the minister that he was standing on a church built with tobacco money.

That was many years ago, said the 72-year-old Spangler, when nearly every farm in Campbell County counted tobacco as part of its revenue stream. Since then, the fourth-generation tobacco farmer has watched the industry crumble like a dry leaf of burley.